Wow, this thread reached 1,000 views.

I posted this over on wrongplanet too.  

Yeah, I'm an ambitious, overzealous kid. One day I had the whacky idea to ask Autism Speaks for an interview. I didn't really think they would respond.

I discovered I was autistic after some incredibly difficult and confusing years. I moved 35 times before I was ten. My sister died  of leukemia at ten.  I was holding her hand. My brother had brain surgery after falling 31 feet off a ski-lift that I was riding with him., My dad had open heart surgery. I was misdiagnosed bipolar and pumped full of awful anti-psychotics. I attempted suicide numerous times.

I was miserable. Finding out I have autism was my saving grace. It meant I wasn't just weird and rude. Suddenly my whole life was given a context.

So yeah, I'm way excited. I'm happy for the first time in a long time. I'm so happy I don't know what to do. I'm not supposed to feel this way.

I'm just excited. I honestly thought I would be dead by 25. I had given up. I spent every day waiting to die.

All of this has been a miracle. I can pretend I'm not excited and nervous out of my mind, but it would be just that, pretending.